Talk:Tomorrow's World
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On 6 January 2007, Tomorrow's World was linked from BBC, a high-traffic website.
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Awwww - failures may have been rare, but they were usually fairly comprehensive. Such moments stand out in the memory, making them seem more common than they probably were. It was definitely part of the charm of the show that things could and did go wrong. Personally, I'll miss it, but I must admit in its more recent format it was never as good as it used to be. GRAHAMUK 12:27, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I'm sure I remember seeing DVDs shown on tomorrow's world years before they came out. Phillipa Forrester was interviewing two people who were using it to watch four weddings and a funeral I think it was. I don't remember the exact date though.
Just a quick note to future editors that the correct spelling of Philippa Forrester's first name is with 1 L, 2 Ps. It doesn't help that it's spelt wrongly on a lot of the Robot Wars DVD cases. Bonalaw 08:59, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Cock-ups on TW live
My favourite was the very first appearance of Geoffrey Pardoe, who later became quite well-known as an expert on space technology (he was employed by British Aerospace, as then was). We had an actual not-yet-launched satellite in the studio, and Raymond Baxter was to introduce Pardoe who would then "show us around" the satellite. Within seconds of cutting to him, Pardoe began to feel queasy and simply walked off the set.
Raymond, of course, whipped out the Parker pen and began to do his trademark exposition ("I think what Mr. Pardoe would have said if he was still with us...."). Up in the gallery we gulped and improvised.
All would have been well, except that Geoffrey shortly felt better (he may have thrown up behind the cyclorama, I wouldn't know) and decided to return to the scene. Our stalwart Floor Manager, a middle-aged woman universally known as "Mother", realising that a Pardoe re-entry would now be a worse cock-up, simply grabbed Geoffrey's mike cable and literally hauled him back off the set. To this day I'm unsure whether any of this enterprising action was caught by our cameras.
--67.117.218.114 15:08, 4 May 2005 (UTC) Stu Harris, now in San Diego
[edit] TW is still running?
Tomorrow's World was a long-running BBC television series should be refering to present?? (TW was on last night) Along with rest of opening para. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bah23 (talk • contribs) 09:37, 7 February 2007 (UTC).
